Melbourn Brothers Cherry

Brewed by Melbourn Brothers (Samuel Smith)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Stamford, England

In the botle from HyVee CB. Pours purple with a pink head. Dark chunks swirl around the bottom. Smells like a cherry cough drop. Very tart initially, then finishes super sweet. Huge cherry taste. Not much else. A giant chalky mouthfeel, but otherwise, sort of what you’d expect this to be.

Strong aroma and flavor of cherry. Highly carbonated. Doesn’t taste much like beer at all, a lot more like a soda. Extremely sweet, great dessert beer.

355ml Bottle – Gravity Beer Market – Olympia, WA – This was a fruit beer and then some. Huge Cherry flavoring this was like a malt liquor with added cherry juice. Has some nice flavors but this was not to my liking. Too Sweet.

Ruby Red color with very little of an off white head. The nose reminds me of cherry flavored cough drops. Lots of sweet cherry fruitiness, with something tangy in the finish. The cherry flavor is a little too medicinal, and the tartness is not strong enough to balance this out. It must be sipped, and even then its really more like a cherry cordial. I will stick to the NG Belgian Red.

in bottle. beautiful aroma - like a cherry liqueur, or perhaps a sweet cough drop. Taste is sweet cherries, but there are finishing hops too, with a tangy twist left on the tongue so you know it is not soda. A delightful beer, one to sip on. not for chugging. would be excellent with dark chocolate on the side.

Pours into my 25cl tulip glass with a pale pink colored head. The beer is dark cherry color that shows an almost clear, bright red color when held up to the light. This is clearly a cherry beer as the aroma of candied cherries jumps out of my glass without me even trying to smell the beer. A deeper inspection of the aroma yield nothing else but cherry, though perhaps there is a touch of something like play-doh.

The taste is not quite as sweet as the aroma would suggest, but it is definitely sweet. Cherry flavors are clearly the most prominent note here and that very faint play-doh note continues to be just noticeable in the flavor too. I am really having a hard time tasting anything but cherry flavors, this is very one dimensional. Because it is sweet, it definitely has a fuller body to it and there is a tannic character to it (sort of like cherry skins) that seems to boost the mouthfeel as well.

More like a cherry soda than anything, you would never be able to guess that there is a spontaneously fermented beer under here, and that is quite a shame. Not bad, just not really beer.

Purchased: Papago Brewing Co. Scottsdale AZ

Never had anything like this, never had a lambic I guess. Was weird at first but as I got used to it, a bit better. Very nice looking. Copper red with a thick head, not much lacing. Very thick sweet medicine palate. Cherry nose. Started a bit carbonated. Grew on me as I drank it. Ends up tasting like cherry juice in the finish.

From a bottle poured a ruby color with a fair amount of light pink head. Nice cherry flavor with a quick tart finish.